{"id":735,"date":"2010-11-19T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=735"},"modified":"2010-11-19T02:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:23:20","slug":"city-of-ships-by-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/city-of-ships-by-walt-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Ships by Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Whitman-leavesofgrass1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20 lazyload\" title=\"Whitman-leavesofgrass\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Whitman-leavesofgrass1-213x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Whitman-leavesofgrass1-213x300.gif 213w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Whitman-leavesofgrass1.gif 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 213px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 213\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">City of Ships<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">?by Walt Whitman<\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<p>City of ships!<br \/>\n(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!<br \/>\nO the beautiful, sharp-bowed steam-ships and sail-ships!)<br \/>\nCity of the world! (for all races are here;<br \/>\nAll the lands of the earth make contributions here;)<br \/>\nCity of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides!<br \/>\nCity whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out,<br \/>\n??????? with eddies and foam!<br \/>\nCity of wharves and stores! city of tall fa?ades of marble and iron!<br \/>\nProud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!<br \/>\nSpring up, O city! not for peace alone, but be indeed yourself, warlike!<br \/>\nFear not! submit to no models but your own, O city!<br \/>\nBehold me! incarnate me, as I have incarnated you!<br \/>\nI have rejected nothing you offered me?whom you adopted, I have adopted;<br \/>\nGood or bad, I never question you?I love all?I do not condemn anything;<br \/>\nI chant and celebrate all that is yours?yet peace no more;<br \/>\nIn peace I chanted peace, but now the drum of war is mine;<br \/>\nWar, red war, is my song through your streets, O city!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Ships ?by Walt Whitman ? City of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships! O the beautiful, sharp-bowed steam-ships and sail-ships!) City of the world! (for all races are here; All the lands of the earth make contributions here;) City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides! City whose&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-whitman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}